A leading data protection expert has questioned the legal basis for the public services card, arguing no piece of legislation specifically mandates its introduction or use.

An “obviously very strong man”, who knocked down two bouncers and threatened to knock down two others, has lost a €60,000 personal injuries claim against a pub and a security firm.

The High Court is to conduct a hearing into whether a solicitor acting for Syrian refugees in an action against the EU and the Irish State should pay the legal costs of a case which was withdrawn a day after it started when a judge was told the two families are now in Germany.

The Department of Education has yet to tell primary school of its U-turn on linking school funding to compliance with a pupil database, according to a solicitor who is to bring a complaint to the European Commission over the initiative.

A landmark European privacy ruling will have significant repercussions for Facebook, the EU, and the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, a digital rights group has claimed.

The Department of Education did not have the authority to collect much of the information gathered for a database of primary pupils, Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon’s office has found.

Concern is being expressed about a new Primary Online Database being established by the Department of Education.

People should have some say over the results that pop up when they conduct a vanity search online.

The former solicitor of singer Johnny Duhan has paid him an award made by the solicitors disciplinary tribunal despite initially refusing to pay it.

When Johnny Duhan got the latest missive in a long-running saga, he wondered whether justice was a thief.

A legal battle between a songwriter and his former solicitor again raises the question of legal fees and the bearing they have on legal outcomes, writes Michael Clifford.

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If you don’t back up your digital pictures, there’s a good chance you’ll lose them to a malfunction or hackers. Unfortunately, using sites such as Facebook and Instagram may give rise to privacy issues. So what are the best options, asks John Hearne

Women fitted with faulty breast implants are having difficulty serving breach of contract and damages claims on a foreign-based parent company of the Irish clinic that carried out the surgery.

A campaigning lawyer has described part of the report into the Magdalene Laundries as a hotchpotch of guesses and omissions presented as scholarly work.

A woman who had two hip replacement operations intends to bring what is expected to be the first of many cases over allegedly defective hip implants.

We share so much information online, but what happens to it all when someone dies? Enter the social media will, writes John Hearne

Innovation minister Seán Sherlock has denied he threatened to pull out of an open forum on copyright legislation unless a prominent internet lawyer was removed from the panel.

A RISING star of Irish horse racing died in Australia yesterday with his mother at his side.